Guild Wars 2

Ashantara.8731:

Ardid.7203:

Frankly, I would prefer they just make the LW S3 episode 4 sooner, over wasting time and resources on Wintersday.

Since it’s a repeated festivity, there are no time and resources being wasted here. All the activation of an event requires is to simply switch a few variables in the database from 0 to 1.

how to kitten of devs in 1 step: tell them any update is just an on-off switch,
I can’t begin to count the amount of times devs have explained how much effort it is each year because the system is constantly changing and all events and contents need to be changed along.

Ashantara.8731:

Amaimon.7823:

So coming tuesday we’ll get wintersday, but the big question on everyone’s minds: we didnt get halloween’16, so what are the odds we’ll get a wintersday’16.
Right now, hopes are low.

???

What do you mean by “We didn’t get Halloween ’16”? It just finished a month ago. Also, “coming Tuesday Wintersday will start” but “We won’t get Wintersday” is contradictory and makes no sense. So, what do you actually try to say?

I meant we got halloween´14, just like in 2015 we got halloween´14.
So I´m hoping we get wintersday´16 and not wintersday´14.

New collections to grind for are fun, but they´re not content. In fact, in case of halloween, we got less than halloween´14 because they removed the story and one of the events.

Underdark.3726:

Amaimon.7823:

The tokens aren’t worth it anyway. Bought 50 keys during cyber monday. /3 for the chests, only 3 contained a lv80 exotic.. you can guess my outrage

I’ve been buying a lottery ticket for 20 years and I still haven’t won the major price. you can guess my outrage.

nice hyperbole.
But on topic: its a lv 80 merchant, even if the exotics are worthless for you, there’s no reason why 79- exotics should drop.
and secondly.. it’s gambling through gambling.
you give up 33% of your gamble for a chance in a fourth gamble.. how does that make sense?

HeadCrowned.6834:

No changes to necro or ranger? I don’t really see why that is.

Good rune and amulet added though.

No nerf is a buff in anets’ eyes

Yea, it’s where I got it. Mine was on the first go, so I thought it was a guaranteed drop, but it may be anywhere from 1-99% then?

Small notice, it comes from the popup chest. so there’s no point in doing multiple shatterers on one day

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Chadramar.8156
A Rytlock-focused episode would be awesome, though at this point it’s hard to imagine how it’d tie in with the dragons we’re fighting.

His sword is fire. Primordus is…wait for it…fire.

His sword is fire because that sword was already fire back in Prophecies before anet even decided Elder Dragons were gonna be a thing. Primordus didn’t even exist on paper back then.
Magdaer and Sohothin

Well, fractals have this weird curve where T1 and T2 are best done with raw DPS, whereas T4 is best done with condi’s. T3 is a bit of a middle ground. Its usually because in T1 and T2 everything dies so fast there’s no point in using condi’s which have a higher long-term dps.

Now downgrades on necros and warriors.. thats an upgrade in its own right

The tokens aren’t worth it anyway. Bought 50 keys during cyber monday. /3 for the chests, only 3 contained a lv80 exotic.. you can guess my outrage

The concensus is, those who bought it recently can arguably have been duped. But those who bought it a long time ago had their share of fun with it.

Think of it as.. Before the multiboxes people had unbreakable tools. Multiples. And they enjoyed the fact they could harvest mine and log for years without ever buying or worryingabout the tools. Now that the multiboxes are a thing, they can easily move the tools between chars. But they won’t get refunded because they actively used the tools and had their money’s worth out of them.

But I don;t disagree, though, it’s not fun to have useless duplicates. Thats why I once suggested a gifting of already bought gem store items. To be able to give my second items to a friend who didnt have the money for them. My suggestion was: when you destroy a BLC item, that item in the shop gets a charge so you can gift it to someone else.

diegonus.9362:

Scaut acan I do not want to talk with me what now ?

Its a glitchy thing. Acan only responds if you glide in from on high. If you’re too close to him already or just walk to him, you’re dead to him. He is a reall skritt at heart and won’t talk to anyone who doesn’t glide in from on high.

Xander.9024:

I hope we can go in the Infinarium with premade groups or solo. Last time I logged in for wintersday, we had to go in with random people. (I think it was calld the Infinarium anyway)

Gaile gray just updated on this on reddit (instead here on their own forum) they havent found a fix formit yet. Aparantly the instances are in the pvp section of the world, and grouping would apparantly destroy the normal pvp servers.. or something like that

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Looks like changes to party grouping for Tix and Toypocalypse won’t be available this year.

It may be misery not to sing at all,
And to go silent through the brimming day;
It may be misery never to be loved,
But deeper griefs than these beset the way.

To sing the perfect song,
And by a half-tone lost the key,
There the potent sorrow, there the grief,
The pale, sad staring of Life’s Tragedy.

To have come near to the perfect love,
Not the hot passion of untempered youth,
But that which lies aside its vanity,
And gives, for thy trusting worship, truth.

This, this indeed is to be accursed,
For if we mortals love, or if we sing,
We count our joys not by what we have,
But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

For we know our many friends,
And in toypocalypse do them not greet.
Together forever, with them in chat, and speech,
Though longing there, in toypocalypse, them to do not meet.

No. They ‘just’ drop.

Tbh, im more concerned on how my warrior is better at disguises than my mesmer. The disguise even mimicks the size and forzen limbs

This was an early concept for when he came out of his pod.

Tbh, i havent found the optimal mob yet. Everythings overkilling or mindnumbingly easy. Veterans in HoT seems to be fun, though. Especially the chack. One type forces you to toggle melee and ranged, and another forces you to pull in and out as younstay on the tip of your feet

15 minutes? Wow.. can you tell me where you find 15 minutes of worth of bags. Because I sometimes do meta events in hot and such. But 20-30 bags is about average. 1-2 minutes of clicking and sometimes merchantimg because the bags got full. I think OP tripped on an ant and now complains there are too many elephants

A summary of all story:

Personal Story: (Dungeons take place at intervals between the stories. you’re not forced to do them, but they add to the character background)
1) Racial Story
2) Racial introduction to the Clans
3) Clan chapter
4) Pact Chapter
5) Campaign to Orr

Living World Season One: (currently unavailable, Molten Duo, Nightmare Tower, Eatherblade and Mai Trin can be fought as Fractals)
1) Molten Alliance
2) Toxic Alliance
3) A War in Politics
4) Aetherblade Ahoy
5) A Trial in Mechanics
6) Assault on Lion’s Arch

Living World Season 2: (playable, requires unlocking by gem purchase or free by logging in when live)
1) Mordremoth Stirs
2) Zephyrite crash and Summit
3) Research in and move on Mordremoth

Heart of Thorns: First expansion
1) Allies in the jungle
2) Awakening of Tarir
3) A scholarship on Dragons
4) War on the Maw
5) Hearts and Minds

Living World Season 3 (numerals) and Current Events/Raid 1 (adexxed)
A) Bandit activity spurs, pact members taken (activity in and outside the Maguuma)
B) Raid 1 > Freeing the captives, confronting the White Mantle
1) Bloodstone Destruction, confronting Caudecus
C) Anomalous activity, tracking the surge
2) Surge lead to Ember Bay, Research on Primordus continues
D) Anomalous activity continues, Braham is contending in the north
3) Beyond the shiverpeaks
———-
———-
This is what we currently have in the sense of story.
(Story Note: The chapter War on the Maw and the raid wing are not experienced by the player (co-commander of the pact. The War on the Mouth is led by a union of Krytan Guilds, The races rallied in the Heart of the Maguuma and the remnants of the Pact. When this was occurs, the player is fighting in the Heart of Thorns, making their way to Mordremoth’s core. The raid occurs shortly after this part. It’s led by a group of adventurers who venture to save the missing pact clansmen. At this time, the player character is rallying their companions and preparing to return for Eir’s funeral. This does not mean the events aren’t canon, it just means the player doesn’t know what’s happening in the war or raid until an NPC tells them what happened)

Linken.6345:

I can understand the first two answers since its 2 min’s apart so an accident due to typing abit longer on the second, the third almost 3 hours later was an over kill tho.

how is it overkill? OP was confused about a mechanic and we explained how it worked? is explaining stuff a form of agitation nowadays? I think you’ve spend too much time on tumblr

So, wintersday has a lot of love from everyone, and there’s some things I want to request from it (maybe I’m too late..)

1) Tixx’s Infinarium and -Toypocalypse- instances to be enterable with a group. Playing with randoms is fine, but sometimes you wanna have fun with guildies, and go the long bout.

2) Guild Hall Ring-a-bell: Bell Choir Ensamble is always one of our favourites. We often compete in this instance with the guildies, even though its a lot of effort if not impossible to get on the same instance. What we wanted was a version (without the rewards of course) for the guild hall, where we can compete against each other (and hopefully even) make our own songs for this minigame.

3) Now that we’ve entered the cold north (definitely too late this year) can we get to Snowman’s Lair?

No, good sir. You learn masteries by gathering exp like normal. Doing events, killing creatures and stuff once the bar is full, 100%, you must pay an appropriate amount of mastery points to unlock the mastery. Then you can use it to fly through the aircurrents

Classes can’t wear other classes’ armor armor because the light, medium and heavy sets are fundamentally different. Devs already tried mixing them, and it did more harm than good. They now just make a few skins which look identical in all three forms, but make no mistake. Its not one item enabled three times. Its the same model made from scrap three times

General Health.9678:

Not sure why we’re all arguing over whether afk botting is worth it.
It shouldn’t be going on regardless of how much or little profit there is in it.
Report them directly to anet, not on the forums and go do something else if it’s bothering you.

Anet will have a way to seperate botters from AFK’ers. As a player it’s hard to tell the difference, sometimes.

SkullProX.7083:

People buy that karmic item and get liquid karma as drop, while afk farming/botting on the new map, try to rethink this farming method being legal, since unlike earlier they get huge drops from this… (karma can be converted to gold… ) so far they couldnt gain much but now its just no…

Karma can be converted to gold? thats nothing new, but having a surplus of karma doesn’t do anything since it’s extremely tedious to turn karma into gold.
One of the most discernable methods is to buy 4 armor, toilet them to 1, and salvage it. Its extremely slow, and makes a very poor gold-hour ratio. Its easy but not very lucrative..

or you could buy orrian jewelry boxes..
either way, this isn´t something that harms the Great Economy, praise be unto Him, so don´t fret too much about it. If someone´s wasting their time farming, botting or not, this stuff, let them. Its almost like complaining about people who roll around in the mud.. if it´s their shtick, who am I to complain if it harms noone and nothing else

Azure Fang.8605:

Amaimon.7823:

sephiroth.4217:

NemesiS.6749:

sephiroth.4217:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

Randulf.7614:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

all just hear say at best with fake leaked stuff that leads to noting at all!! not only that

but if that was real and not something leaked or fake . i will not spend one penny on

that at all .and i will unstall the game fully . that would be something i would not

want in this game at all. and if i want to play mario i will play mario on my wii and so

forth but not in this game at all ever !!

Just for clarity, this is in the game already. It’s the Super Adventure Box festival that occurs in April. The OP was being tongue-in-cheek about an expac based on it.

oh that i never do that junky Super Adventure Box festival do not like it think it should

not be in the game at all

Good thing about SAB is that it’s an instance that has no effect on the playerbase who has no interest in SAB.

Yea, i dont know why, i always try it but i never get into SAB. Its probably the event i mostly hate, i avoid it completely mostly. Good thing is it doesnt affect on anything the game, well maybe i lose the chance of earning those cool skins but thats about it.

I’m exactly the same, I hate it but it has no effect on my gameplay what so ever so I don’t care, if only dueling could be implemented the same way…….

Amaimon.7823:

Except that devs already complained how much effort it is to make a single sab map.
As a result, it does affect us. It takes several devs a month or longer to make on map. All that effort couldve gone to ls3, current events, or expansion.. I dunno.. actual content

It is content, just not appealing content to us. Not all content appeals to all players but with instances it doesn’t really bother anyone who doesn’t care about it, just provides more options to have fun to those that are interested.

Okay, what if the devs started focussing on a different instance, once where everyone is turnt into a quaggan or skritt, and then you have to fight a pink elder dragon who breathes rainbow, while all music is replaced wth trap music. Oh, and you have to walk and act on a beat otherwise you get knocked down.

Do you think “hey anet, thanks for the content that took you a lot of effort to make and took away on production of the main game” or do you think “what the skritt, anet??”

I have NOTHING against minigames, but they need to make sense.. they need to fit in the game. Crab Toss fits in the game, Southsun Survival fits in the game, Zephyrite Sprint fits in the game.
Seasonal events; Wintersday and Halloween fit in the game.
SAB does not fit in the game. Using crowbars b hole was torn in the game and SAB was painfully jabbed in

Actually, if you read into the lore and history behind SAB, it fits the game perfectly. Just because you do not enjoy a piece of content does not mean it does not fit and should not be developed.

As to your hyperbolic hypothetical: I’d play that content in a heartbeat.

I enjoyed it, though the first time. It was new, it was a joke, it was fun. But it’s no longer a joke, people think it’s part of the core game now, and demand more effort put into it. People really need to get over the fact it was just an april fools joke all those years ago. (Have the memberberries gotten to this game?)

Famine.3164:

Really? I’ll never understand why people calculate like this.. My spark cost close to 0 beacuse I used mats in my bank so they were free.. precursor crafting is fine.

You pay for the product, whether you buy the mats, or use the mats you saved, you can only use the mats once. In your case, you didn’t buy mats because you saved them. But next time you want to craft something the mats won’t be there anymore.
As a result, it’s hard to express things in monetary value, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have materialistic value

Crafting was actually supposed to be a lot more expenisve than outright buying one in order to compensate for the fact that luck was removed from the table.
In retrospect, you got an adventure/collection before you could craft it.
So you also got some fun for that money. Unless you didn’t find the collection fun, which begs te question why you were doing it, then

sephiroth.4217:

NemesiS.6749:

sephiroth.4217:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

Randulf.7614:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

all just hear say at best with fake leaked stuff that leads to noting at all!! not only that

but if that was real and not something leaked or fake . i will not spend one penny on

that at all .and i will unstall the game fully . that would be something i would not

want in this game at all. and if i want to play mario i will play mario on my wii and so

forth but not in this game at all ever !!

Just for clarity, this is in the game already. It’s the Super Adventure Box festival that occurs in April. The OP was being tongue-in-cheek about an expac based on it.

oh that i never do that junky Super Adventure Box festival do not like it think it should

not be in the game at all

Good thing about SAB is that it’s an instance that has no effect on the playerbase who has no interest in SAB.

Yea, i dont know why, i always try it but i never get into SAB. Its probably the event i mostly hate, i avoid it completely mostly. Good thing is it doesnt affect on anything the game, well maybe i lose the chance of earning those cool skins but thats about it.

I’m exactly the same, I hate it but it has no effect on my gameplay what so ever so I don’t care, if only dueling could be implemented the same way…….

Amaimon.7823:

Except that devs already complained how much effort it is to make a single sab map.
As a result, it does affect us. It takes several devs a month or longer to make on map. All that effort couldve gone to ls3, current events, or expansion.. I dunno.. actual content

It is content, just not appealing content to us. Not all content appeals to all players but with instances it doesn’t really bother anyone who doesn’t care about it, just provides more options to have fun to those that are interested.

Okay, what if the devs started focussing on a different instance, once where everyone is turnt into a quaggan or skritt, and then you have to fight a pink elder dragon who breathes rainbow, while all music is replaced wth trap music. Oh, and you have to walk and act on a beat otherwise you get knocked down.

Do you think “hey anet, thanks for the content that took you a lot of effort to make and took away on production of the main game” or do you think “what the skritt, anet??”

I have NOTHING against minigames, but they need to make sense.. they need to fit in the game. Crab Toss fits in the game, Southsun Survival fits in the game, Zephyrite Sprint fits in the game.
Seasonal events; Wintersday and Halloween fit in the game.
SAB does not fit in the game. Using crowbars b hole was torn in the game and SAB was painfully jabbed in

sephiroth.4217:

Good thing about SAB is that it’s an instance that has no effect on the playerbase who has no interest in SAB.

Except that devs already complained how much effort it is to make a single sab map.
As a result, it does affect us. It takes several devs a month or longer to make on map. All that effort couldve gone to ls3, current events, or expansion.. I dunno.. actual content

Abelisk.4527:

All these salty people who can’t do platforming.. kek

SAB isn’t hard. far from it, I found it very easy (blame on years of playing rayman). I just don’t think it’s worth development time. I mean, it has zero connection to the world, and really, it was just implemented as a joke, a joke that has gone too far.
It was a fun laugh the first time, but now people are forcing anet to remake the same joke over and over, and frankly, if it comes at the cost of development, I don’t want it. I don’t think april fools’ gimmicks are worth the lack of LS3 and Current Events updates

So coming tuesday we’ll get wintersday, but the big question on everyone’s minds: we didnt get halloween’16, so what are the odds we’ll get a wintersday’16.
Right now, hopes are low.

MisterOiZo.4359:

Yaaay SAB! that content rocks!

I always hope it rocks so it can sink like a rock to the bottom of development hell. If they waste time on sab now when LS3 is going and they havent finished Current Events..

Danikat.8537:

Zaoda.1653:

I keep hearing people talk about this ‘next expansion’. Did I miss something? Was it announced somewhere?

They haven’t actually announced it. We know that they’re working on one but that’s all we know. At some point they’ll presumably do a proper announcement when they tell us the name, roughly what it’s about, show a preview video etc. and we’ll either get a release date then or sometime later.

It looks like the story is going to be about fighting both Jormag and Primordius though, which should be interesting. I’m guessing that means they’ll be filling in more of the north of the map.

They lo-key announced theyre working on the next expasion, but other than that we know nothing atm

Khisanth.2948:

Amaimon.7823:

Duke Nukem.6783:

so this still does not work right a year later (what a surprise anet)

either update the master acheivment to specifically say it requires you not to die and TAKE IT AWAY IF YOU DO or fix whatever else is wrong with it

I happened to have cleared it last week. and you can down but not die. It’s a bit buggy though, as dying elsewhere in the instance might also remove the buff. also, do not kill any chack in the pit before braham finished his comments

You can run through the entire instance and then just fight the vet and adds just before the pit.

You can, but theres a lot that can bug in HoT instances, so dont take unnecessary chances

Duke Nukem.6783:

so this still does not work right a year later (what a surprise anet)

either update the master acheivment to specifically say it requires you not to die and TAKE IT AWAY IF YOU DO or fix whatever else is wrong with it

I happened to have cleared it last week. and you can down but not die. It’s a bit buggy though, as dying elsewhere in the instance might also remove the buff. also, do not kill any chack in the pit before braham finished his comments

You can down, but you can’t die.
You need to kill everything except for 4 or 5 chack, it doesn’t matter if you kill veterans or normals. If you died once, the achievement stops tracking.
There’s a small crown icon in your buffs, when you lose it, you lose the progress.
sometimes death earlier in the instance also removes eligibility of the achievement, so always keep an eye on the crown-icon buff

Everytime I hear SAB i hear ’how to ruin a perfectly good game in 8bit steps"

Heart: local/static quest. Approach and the quest will fill your event box.
Shield: escort or defense event. The shield icon marks the point or person that needs protecting.
Swords: conquer or kill. The sword icon tells you which enemies you need to kill or which point to conquer.

Grover.8753:

I had this happen to me too. I reported it through the in game report option. I took the grub pit and rushed straight through to the chak. He died along the way some how instead of staying with me and was auto-res’d when I killed the chak. He stopped just short of entering the area of the cave with the chak (same as your image) and froze up.

I tried getting him killed then res’d him but still did nothing to help. Prevents progress.

Grub pit as well? That might be the problem. I think the mappung isnt done properly, since you need to glide from branch to branch.

My theory: Smodur is scared Rytlock was gaining favor too fast, and now finds a powerful magic. Smodur gets him off the map. Either rytlock talks and Smodur seeks this magic as well, or he can throw rytlock in jail. Either way, no opponents in Black Citadel.

maxwelgm.4315:

It’s the Tyrian interpretation that the dragons were immortal beings that is erroneous. Besides, the previous dragonrise also had an uprising, but the Mursaat/Jotun/Seers/Forgotten/Dwarves (and maybe even the Krait to some extent), albeit being very strong, arguably moreso than us concerning magic even if they didn’t have magitech, could not properly join up forces to combat the dragons. Maybe if they all agreed to fight or all agreed to defend and hide either choice would have succeeded better.

So we are not personally that strong, but we (as usual) are the metaphorical glue that holds the whole word together against an almighty enemy. Know what would be a real surprise? If we tried to pit the dragon energies against each other and they actually decided to join forces to prevent this, since we’re going to pull a Deus Ex Machina anyway to kill them (come on, we did it the last 2 times, why not 4 more), we might as well have no other choice, having two or more join and become actually world-ending-powerful.

They had a common ground, or rather, a common enemy. But the elder races werent buddy buddy. Hardly even. They could just stand each other. When fighting the elder dragons they were propably watching their backs more than the dragons. Even when a real solution was presented there was some bickering and betrayal

Q: Why is autoloot gated behind masteries?
A: because people have been asking for it, since everyone wanted it, and anet wanted a meaningful mastery reward, a wonderful thing was born. People can now unlock the autoloot by spending mastery points to unlock autoloot. Everyone happy

OP asked a question
Question was answered 13 times along this thread
Most of this thread is a complete derailment of the topic.
OP asked a question, got an answer, didn’t like the answer, and now we’re here..
It’s almost politics.. or madness.. or both

time to replay for a fourth time sigh…

So, three times I chose the grub pit route simply because it’s the fastest route.. but Braham is unresponsive at the end, now chose the dark route. Braham worked fine.
Just to test I replayed for the grub pit route again, and guess what, Braham is as dull as he is in LS3. Guess something in the grub pit is messing with his brains

Braham is stuck in the Chack chapter of the HoT story. After killing the big Chack and talking to the soldier, I’m supposed to talk to Braham. But I replayed this chapter 3 times now, and everytime Braham becomes completely unresponsive.

It doesn’t help that braham is infuriating in ch3, this only makes me hate him more, I need to continue!

For HoT they had to make a new class and then 9 elites for them all. I dont think we’ll get 2 or more elites per class this year, but theyll have more tome to design something more refined/unique

Mowing is a big word. Zhaitan died by chance. We absorbed his magic, anticorrupted it, and fired it back. That turnt out to be his weakness. We then turnt to mordremoth who was winning and killing us off at every turn. Only at the end when it turnt into a battle of wits within the dream did we finally manage to harm mordremoth. I have no reason to believe that primordus and jormag will go down that easy. As for kralkatorrik, we might try the same method again

Yea, legendary is a function (color of the name) which won’t go away even if you transmute it.
You could technically have a legendary Iron Sword.

In retrospect, the Mystic forge also completely ignores the transmutations. If you throw in an iron sword, and transmute it Zap, you can’t craft the legendary sword with it.

Tekey.7946:

Back in GW1 we had NPC henchmen and heroes with real damage, each one got their own profession(s) and function and you could set up your group as you wish
On the other hand story missions could also fail completely, so you had to start all over again if your group was defeated.

Katoomba.6905:

(like “gliding”, well, at least no other game will ever be tempted to pinch/copy that system)

Aion had wings and gliding when GW2 was still in developement and in new games like Revelation you can fly, too (although it seems to be endless there).

Thats because GW1 was designed as group content, so if you couldn’t form a group of intelligent people, you needed henchmen who could at least not hold you back. GW2 is solo content, so everything needs to be so easy that 0 people is enough to clear a run

LouWolfskin.3492:

Amaimon.7823:

Maybe some things enemies could do is:
DODGE!
Walk out of AoEs and walk around walls
Switch to melee if you summon a barrier

It gives a whole new depth to combat and makes CC more valuable

You do realize that many people hate the fact that CC is needed in HoT at all right?

That’s.. pretty sad actually..
so people don’t want to equip CC skills, but rather want anet to cater to them?

I noticed it too, mostly during HoT, I downed, and I waited for them to kill last mob (hoping they would rez me)
There was 1 mob with 38% health. There was Rytlock, Braham, Marjory, Kas, Canach, even Caithe (why I let her live at time I still don’t know. the execute option wasn’t there).
But together, it took them over 5 minutes to get that 38% down..
That’s mostly Destiny’s Edge. I’m starting to think the Destroyer of Life in the book was an ambient creature if it took them that much effort to kill